Improvement in can-openers



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Geenen e. Joven, or BALiriMoRE; MARYLAND.

Letters Patent No. 93,541, dated ugust 1GO, 1869. v

IMPROVEMENT IN CAN-OPENERS.

The Schedule rferred to in these Letters Patent an d makingkpart of the same.

To all whom it may conce/rn Be it known'that I, GEORGE (3e-JOYCE, of city and county of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented a eeltain new and useful Improvement in In-v struments for Opening Fruit-Cans, Sardine -Boxes,z or other things of a like nature; Vand I do hereby de- The object of :this invention is toprovide the ordi@v nary form of' can-opener with a guard or guide, lwhich greatly facilitates its operation.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will describe its construction and operation.

Figure 1, in the drawing, represents the' cau-opener,

being constructed 'of tempered steel, and of the `ordiA Ilary form, with' two cutting-,blades A and B, and to which are attached thegudes O C, ou bothv sides, in order that they may be used by both the right or left hand.

The operation of the instrument is as follows:

The point of the cutting-.blade Bis inserted intofthe can or box to be opened, in the manner shown in fig. 2, and by turning it over t-o the right or left,4 as required,.the instrument takes the position as shown in fig. 3, when the can or box may be opened without diiiculty, the guides O C preventing the cutting-blades from cutting toward the centre, thus making a perfectly clean, regular cut.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure byfLetters Patent, is-

rIhe guards or guides O G, when used in combina'- tion with the cutting-blades A B, substantially in the manner and for the purposes described.

GEORGE G. JOYCE.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM THOMSON, A. S. HOUCIL 

